Captain America / Believer

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THURSDAY - DECEMBER 15th, 2011

Joe Simon passed away after a brief illness Wednesday. He was 98 years old. His lifetime was one involving titanic changes in the country and the comic industry. In the 1940s, he co-created the ultra patriotic Captain America with innovative young artist Jack Kirby. The two of them pioneered new tricks and techniques for telling stories in the comics medium and sold over one million copies of Cap's first issue - made famous for the image of Cap smashing Hitler in the jaw on...

Los Angeles based Runic Films sponsors the blog site: Captain America! Redefining Modern Myth. March 4th marks the first month of posts from creative team Ben Alpi, filmmaker and Rick Arthur, comic artist. Interest has been high for this careful reconstructing of the Steve Rogers/Captain America myth which blends factual elements from the WWII era with the wealth of Cap source material.

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Post titles include Going Home, Watch Out Red Skull, No Ordinary Man, Letters From Soldiers and many more. When asked to describe the project, Alpi said, "It is...